Mirroring in Relationships

Our relationships provide perfect mirrors for the gifts of growth to occur, if we can see them as that.

Often, if we feel anxious and alone in those spaces, individual needs are not being met.

Depression sets in when we feel powerless to be seen and heard without the consequence of abandonment and rejection.

Rage comes roaring when spoken or silent boundaries have been crossed too many times, and in those moments we precisely chose to abandon ourselves by continuing to engage.

A deep seed of grief is planted and watered when we decide indifference is safer than self-honesty.

In every shadowed aspect of relationship, there exists an opportunity for clarity.

If truth has not been spoken, the mask of self-deception and uncertainty will always be staring back at us, offering us a truth that does not require validation or making someone else wrong.

“Wrongness” is an ill-fated consequence of fear-fueled power and control.